[geeks] Enterprise SATA hard drive recommendations

Mark Benson md.benson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 11:05:11 CST 2013


I'm a little unsure how using RAID 1 over these on a SAS/SATA controller
that's almost certainly not TRIM or SSD aware would work.

Interesting for idea, though.
 On 2 Dec 2013 17:01, "Jonathan Katz" <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any recommended brands for SATA enterprise/datacentre disks? It is
> running
> > a pair of Seagate ES series drives and they lasted a stunning 4 years.
> >
> >
> I'm a big fan of anything SSD these days. Although SSDs can die, they have
> no moving parts and are tons faster. If you don't have needs to store HUGE
> amounts of data (requirements for 500GB or 1TB drives) cough up the cash
> for 256G SSDs (usually around USD $200-$300 each)
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